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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />1 for highway improvements. A compromise was finally arrived <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />at whereby $28 million of the sales tax was earmarked for the <br /> <br />3 next three years--starting this fiscal year with $8 million <br /> <br />4 this year and $10 million the next two years--to go to the <br /> <br />5 construction fund, so there was no continuing allocation of <br /> <br />6 the sales tax to the construction fund as we had originally <br /> <br />7 hoped. <br />8 That 2 percent would have produced somewhere around <br /> <br />9 $10 million a year. but then the legislature repealed the sale <br /> <br />10 tax on food, and that reduced the take by about three to four <br /> <br />11 million a year. It still. in my opinion. would have been quit <br /> <br />adequate if we had gotten 2 percent earmarked or diverted to <br /> <br />the construction fund as was in the bill last year. And the <br /> <br />bill here is about the same thing with a higher percentage. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Well. it seems evident we are going <br /> <br />to get some funding. How is the Board staffed to handle this? <br /> <br />What do we need? Are we adequate now? What are the plans? <br /> <br />MR. McDONALD: That issue is under consideration. <br /> <br />I managed to get some language into the very end of 1039 if <br /> <br />anybody cares to refer to it. It is on page four. the very <br /> <br />last line and continuing on to page five. That. in effect-- <br /> <br />although I think there need to be some amendments to that <br /> <br />language. and I'm working with Representative Younglund on <br /> <br />that now--in effect. permits the Board to pay for services. <br /> <br />travel. and operating expenses of the staff proper. We have <br />